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Helga Estby

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Helga Estby
Helga (left) with her daughter Clara, 1897
Born
Helga Avilda Ida Marie Johanssen

May 30, 1860
Oslo
DiedApril 20, 1942(1942-04-20) (aged 81)
NationalityAmerican
Known forsuffragist

Helga Estby (May 30, 1860 – April 20, 1942) was an American suffragist most noted for her walk across the United States during 1896.

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Biography

Helga Avilda Ida Marie Johanssen was born in Oslo (then called Christiania), Norway.[1] Helga traveled from Norway with her mother, arriving in Manistee, Michigan, during 1871. In 1876, she married Ole Estby, an immigrant from Grue, Hedmark, Norway. They started their new life together initially homesteading a land patent in Yellow Medicine County near Canby, Minnesota. The family subsequently relocated and settled on a farm in Mica Creek, Spokane County, Washington.

Due to the financial Panic of 1893 and her husband's accidents, the family could not pay the mortgage or taxes on their home and farmland. Together with Clara, her 17-year-old daughter, Helga tried to save her family farm by walking 3,500 miles across country to New York City.[2] Helga had made a bet with an unknown sponsor that would give them $10,000 if they did the walk in seven months.[3] Clara and Helga started the walk from Spokane on May 5.[4] The women walked 25-35 miles a day and were offered shelter along the way, spending only 9 nights without a roof over their head.[5] On Christmas Eve, 1896, the New York World reported their arrival in New York City.[6] On arrival in New York, the sponsor of the contest refused to pay or help them back home, saying the women had missed their deadline. Helga managed to return to her farm only to find that two of her children had died of diphtheria in her absence.[7]

After the Estby family lost their home in Mica Creek, Ole Estby began a construction business in Spokane, Washington. Helga was considered a deserter of her family and was shunned by much of the local Norwegian-American community. Helga went on to become a suffragist and wrote down her story later in her life. Her notes were destroyed, but her story was carried on through oral tradition, by her family and through newspaper clippings saved by her daughter-in-law.[8]

Estby died on April 20, 1942, and was laid to rest in the Mica Creek cemetery near Spokane.[9]

Legacy

  • Helga Estby Lodge #47 of the Daughters of Norway in Mountain Home, Idaho, was named in her honor.
  • Helga Estby Bold Spirited Scholarship Award was established in her memory by the Women Helping Women Fund in Spokane, Washington.

References

  1. ^ "Estby, Helga (1860-1942)". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. ^ "San Francisco Call 5 May 1896 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". Ucr.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  3. ^ "Helga Estby, who walked across the United States in 1896 to try to save her family farm". The Vintage News. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  4. ^ "From Spokane to New York". San Francisco Call. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 1898-05-05. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  5. ^ "Helga Estby, who walked across the United States in 1896 to try to save her family farm". The Vintage News. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  6. ^ Riddle, Margaret (2011-09-23). "the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  7. ^ "Yesterday's News » Blog Archive » Wednesday, June 2, 1897: Spokane to New York on foot". 2005-11-25. Archived from the original on August 31, 2014. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  8. ^ "Bold Spirit by Linda Hunt". Boldspiritacrossamerica.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  9. ^ "Obituary in the Spokane Daily Chronicle". 1942-04-21. Retrieved 2015-08-17.

Other sources

  • Hunt, Linda Lawrence (2005) Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America (Random House) ISBN 978-1-4000-7993-3
  • Dagg, Carole Estby (2011) The Year We Were Famous (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company) ISBN 978-0-618-99983-5
  • Kirkpatrick, Jane (2011) The Daughter's Walk (WaterBrook Press) ISBN 978-1400074297

External links

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